Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)
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Heartbreaker is an album
Album
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 by Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....

, her fourth for the Arista
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...

 label. It was released in 1982 and features the hit single "Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick song)
"Heartbreaker" is a 1982 single released by American pop and soul singer Dionne Warwick. The song was written by The Bee Gees' Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, with Barry Gibb's distinctive backing vocal being heard on the chorus...

", penned by the Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

. Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE , is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed The Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major...

 produced the album with Karl Richardson and Albhy Galuten
Albhy Galuten
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. The album was certified gold in the United States
United States
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 for sales in excess of 500,000 copies and has sold over three million copies worldwide. The album reached number 3 in the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
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 with the singles "Heartbreaker" and "All The Love In The World" both hitting the Top 10.

Track listing

Songs written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, except where indicated.
  1. "Heartbreaker
    Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick song)
    "Heartbreaker" is a 1982 single released by American pop and soul singer Dionne Warwick. The song was written by The Bee Gees' Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, with Barry Gibb's distinctive backing vocal being heard on the chorus...

    " 4:16
  2. "It Makes No Difference" 4:26 (Barry Gibb/Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.He produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies...

    )
  3. "Yours" 4:58
  4. "Take the Short Way Home" 3:47 (Barry Gibb/Albhy Galuten)
  5. "Misunderstood" 4:07
  6. "All the Love In the World
    All the Love in the World
    "All the Love in the World" was a 1982 single by Dionne Warwick. The song was written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb, and was featured on Warwick's hit album Heartbreaker, produced by Barry Gibb, Karl Richardson, and Albhy Galuten....

    " 3:25
  7. "I Can't See Anything But You" 3:24 (Barry Gibb/Albhy Galuten/Maurice Gibb)
  8. "Just One More Night" 3:51 (Barry Gibb/Albhy Galuten)
  9. "You Are My Love" 3:50
  10. "Our Day Will Come" 3:47 (Bob Hilliard
    Bob Hilliard
    Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs; "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", "Any Day Now", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Our Day Will Come", "My Little Corner of the World", and "Seven Little Girls ".-Career:Born in New York City, New York, and after...

    /Mort Garson)

Personnel

  • Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....

     - vocals
  • Barry Gibb
    Barry Gibb
    Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE , is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed The Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major...

     - vocals, guitar, strings and horns arrangement
  • Tim Renwick
    Tim Renwick
    Timothy John Pearson 'Tim' Renwick is an English guitarist.-Career:Renwick started playing guitar in the 1960s. He performed with many bands, including Little Women, Wages of Sin, Junior's Eyes, The Hype, Quiver and Lazy Racer...

     - guitar
  • Richard Tee
    Richard Tee
    Richard Tee was a pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger.Tee graduated from the High School of Music and Art and attended the Manhattan School of Music. Though better known as a studio and session musician, Tee led a jazz ensemble, the Richard Tee Committee, and was a founding member of the...

     - piano
  • George Bitzer - piano, synthesiser
  • Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.He produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies...

     - piano, synthesiser, strings and horns arrangement
  • George Perry
    George Perry
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     - bass
  • Steve Gadd
    Steve Gadd
    Steve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...

     - drums
  • Joe Lala
    Joe Lala
    Joe Lala is an actor and voice actor, notable for his dubbing of Kun Lan of the video-game Killer7.He also played drums and percussion on 32 gold and 28 platinum albums. His credits include Blues Image, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Manassas, The Bee Gees, Whitney Houston, and many...

     - percussion
  • Gary Brown
    Gary Brown
    Gary Leroy Brown is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Houston Oilers in the eighth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He is currently the running backs coach for the Cleveland Browns. A 5'11", 230-lb...

     - sax
  • Peter Graves
    Peter Graves
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    , Brett Murphey, Whit Sidener, Dan Bonsanti, Neal Bonsanti, Ken Faulk - The Boneroo Horns
  • George Terry
    George Terry
    George E. Terry is an American blues rock and rock and roll guitarist most known for his live and studio work with Eric Clapton during the 1970s and studio work with a long list of artists...

     - guitar
  • Dennis Bryon - percussion
  • Daniel Ben Zebulon - percussion
  • Anita Lopez - percussion
  • Karl Richardson, Dale Peterson
    Dale Peterson
    Dale Peterson is an American author who writes about scientific and natural history subjects.-Early Life and Education:...

    , Neal Kent, Sam Taylor-Porter - engineer
  • Andy Holfman, Nicky Kalliongis - mediasound
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